Installing packages

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Michael Anckaert">

> I propose that we (I know I'm not a developper but want to help out where
> I can) upgrade the update-manager so that it can install packages to. 

(That would be inappropriate.)

> The users wants to install some office software, he starts up the
> update-manager and he sees a list of categories. 
> He selects 'Office' and gets a list with all the different Office
> programs the kind Ubuntu people have provided. 
> * Office Suite
> * Groupware
> * etc

> ... you'll probably noticed that this list looks a lot like the Gnome
> applications menu wich is a good thing! This will make things a lot less
> complicated and I believe that users will have a much better experience
> installing packages.

Install and run 'gnome-app-install'. We're already there. :-)

- Jeff

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